Quotes About Understanding

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds ' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

seen the big bear, he squatted down to read

Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7)

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.

comprehend, but also that much of it is obsolete almost as soon as it is published. This is a phenomenon too confusing for most to fully understand. This

We will find out. It will all become clear. Heaven is involved, and heaven never leaves anything in which it is involved unresolved.

Job once asked, "Can anyone teach God knowledge?" (Job 21:22). The obvious answer is no; no one can teach

Proverbs tells us, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy

Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say "I know", I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.

Believing takes place in the heart more than in the mind.

you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! Then satan will have lost his foothold of accusation. He is defeated when you understand what your righteousness really means.

You've probably heard comments such as these your entire life: "Why can't she put her stuff away?" "Doesn't she care how it affects the rest of us?" "Why is she so lazy?" "What a pig!" And you have most likely internalized these painful, derogatory, negative remarks over the years until they have slaughtered your self-esteem, making you wonder What is wrong with me?

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them.

Instead of complaining about your differences, begin to discover and confess your agreement: "In Jesus' name, I understand how my pastor thinks and I flow with him in the spirit of understanding.

Gan : You're never involved, are you Avon? Have you ever cared for anyone? Vila : ...Except yourself? Avon : I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it - *at all*. [exits] - Blake's 7

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.